Bad-tempered blowout puts Pittsburgh Penguins on cusp of Stanley Cup victory against Nashville Predators
Six different players scored and Sidney Crosby had three assists as the Penguins thrashed the Predators 6-0 in game five
Pekka Rinne’s struggles in Pittsburgh have his Nashville Predators on the brink of elimination.
The Predators are in a 3-2 hole with game six coming up Sunday night in Nashville.
“It wasn’t good,” Laviolette said. “It’s not the first period that we were looking for and it didn’t really get much better after that. Definitely things we could’ve done better defensively.”
Nashville rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie the best-of-seven series and the home team has won all five games. Nashville are also a comfortable 9-1 in the play-offs at home, and teams that lost game five of a tied final have won the Stanley Cup four of the last eight times, including Pittsburgh in 2009.
Unreal! Crosby can get away with murder. It's disgusting. @NHL @penguins #stanleycup pic.twitter.com/ya4wHUz1Hj— Blueshirtsnation.com (@NYRangerFanclub) June 9, 2017
But the Predators had little to enjoy from this one.